[Inpycon] Keynote speakers for PyCon India 2013

[Baishampayan Ghose]

I feel Kenneth Reitz will catch people's fancy (eg. students) with his
talk, especially about contributing back to Python/FOSS, etc. Hillary
Mason is awesome from a technical standpoint as well. ~BG

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
>
> Okay. We need to get this wrapped up.
>
> We are planning to have 2 speakers. The first one is Kiran. The second
> is undecided although there are some potential candidates. I'll let this
> thread grow for suggestions. This is the list so far. I've also included
> a brief bio/list of projects they're famous for.
>
>    - Armin Ronacher - Flask, pocco projects.
>    - Kenneth Reitz - Requests and other "for humans" alternatives to stdlib.
>    - Alex Gaynor - PyPy and optimisation in general.
>    - Steve Holden - PSF
>    - Van Lindberg - PSF
>    - Hilary Mason - bit.ly (we invited her last year but she had other engagements).
>
> In addition to this, we have one other invited speaker.
>
>    - Joe Gibbs (of the lambda-py project).
>
>
> I don't want to this democratically (via voting) but it would be nice to
> have some discussion. We'll zero in on someone by the middle of next
> week and I'll invite them formally. Time is running short and we need to
> make a decision.
>
> I'm personally for inviting Hilary Mason. She's technically strong,
> active in the startup community and was a keynote speaker at PyCon in
> Atlanta. In addition to this, we tried to invite her last year and she
> was interested but couldn't because of a schedule conflict.
>
> Steve Holden and Van Lindberg can speak from a PSF/community perspective.
>
> The others are technically strong and from what I know, good speakers.
>
>
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
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